Fantaspoa has been bringing the latest in genre cinema to South America with their film festivals and have just announced that they're expanding into distribution. The newly announced FantasFilms will bring around 20 feature films per year to Brazilian cinemas, including Dave Made a Maze, The Ranger, Mohawk, and more:
From the Press Release: Every May and June, the city of Porto Alegre in Brazil becomes an international hub where artists, filmmakers, actors, and cinephiles from across the globe gather for Fantaspoa: South America's largest festival of fantastic cinema and the sole member of the Méliès Federation on the continent.
This year, in addition to the festival itself, Fantaspoa has announced its own distribution arm: FantasFilms.
The newly-launched company will team up with Marcelo de Souza's Mares Filmes, with plans for distributing around 20 feature films per calendar year to Brazilian cinemas. All of the films selected will come exclusively from the festival lineup.
From the Press Release: Every May and June, the city of Porto Alegre in Brazil becomes an international hub where artists, filmmakers, actors, and cinephiles from across the globe gather for Fantaspoa: South America's largest festival of fantastic cinema and the sole member of the Méliès Federation on the continent.
This year, in addition to the festival itself, Fantaspoa has announced its own distribution arm: FantasFilms.
The newly-launched company will team up with Marcelo de Souza's Mares Filmes, with plans for distributing around 20 feature films per calendar year to Brazilian cinemas. All of the films selected will come exclusively from the festival lineup.
- 6/8/2018
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
With only four weeks till the start of the festival, Frightfest organisers have announced not only some of the guests set to appear over the August Bank Holiday weekend, but also the addition of another film to the line-up! The 150 plus guest-list this year is as vibrant and eclectic as ever, with nearly 40 of the films represented… New to the film line-up is Jackals, Kevin Greutert’s potent blend of horror thriller, home invasion terror and murder cult chiller, which stars Stephen Dorff and Deborah Kara Unger. The film is scheduled for Saturday 25th August, 4pm and 4.30pm in the main screens at the Cineworld Leicester Square.
Check out the new festival trailer and guest details below:
From the press release:
It’s been five years since Don Mancini and Fiona Dourif raised the Empire roof with Curse Of Chucky and this year they are joined by the irrepressible Jennifer Tilly...
Check out the new festival trailer and guest details below:
From the press release:
It’s been five years since Don Mancini and Fiona Dourif raised the Empire roof with Curse Of Chucky and this year they are joined by the irrepressible Jennifer Tilly...
- 7/28/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Lgbt road movie goes to Optimale; Slingshot Films picks up Ivan.
UK-based Wavelength Pictures has sold all rights for French-speaking territories to Optimale for You Can’t Escape Lithuania, the second feature by Lithuania’s openly gay filmmaker Romas Zabarauskas.
The Lgbt road movie – which was also co-produced by Wavelength’s John Flahive – had been presented as a work in progress at last year’s Meeting Point Vilnius (Mpv) during the Vilnius International Festival and was released theatrically in Lithuania in November.
Mpv’s head of industry Rita Stanelyte revealed that this year’s work in progress section this April will be casting its nets further to include all Central and Eastern European countries after previously focusing on the Baltic states and the Eastern Partnership countries from the former Soviet Union
Further pick-ups
Elsewhere, Manuela Buono’s Trieste-based sales company Slingshot Films has picked up Slovenian filmmaker Janez Burger’s latest feature Ivan, starring one of...
UK-based Wavelength Pictures has sold all rights for French-speaking territories to Optimale for You Can’t Escape Lithuania, the second feature by Lithuania’s openly gay filmmaker Romas Zabarauskas.
The Lgbt road movie – which was also co-produced by Wavelength’s John Flahive – had been presented as a work in progress at last year’s Meeting Point Vilnius (Mpv) during the Vilnius International Festival and was released theatrically in Lithuania in November.
Mpv’s head of industry Rita Stanelyte revealed that this year’s work in progress section this April will be casting its nets further to include all Central and Eastern European countries after previously focusing on the Baltic states and the Eastern Partnership countries from the former Soviet Union
Further pick-ups
Elsewhere, Manuela Buono’s Trieste-based sales company Slingshot Films has picked up Slovenian filmmaker Janez Burger’s latest feature Ivan, starring one of...
- 2/12/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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